# Eve Online crashing shortly after entering combat on higher end PC **URL:** \ **Category:** General Issues\ **Created:** [May 1, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807 "2026-05-01T17:11:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Regal\_Concordance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/regal_concordance/32/495128_2.png) [@Regal\_Concordance](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Regal_Concordance)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/1 "2026-05-01T17:11:52Z")
I have been playing Eve Online for a year now. Built a new PC 6 months ago. Today, going into L4 The Assault mission, I have crashed by 7 times. First crash happened after maybe 10 min with 30 enemies on screen. Then crashing faster and faster with fewer and fewer enemies. Now down to last 4, then 2 enemies and crashes 60 seconds into combat. With no drones, Salvage drone, or 4+ combat drones. Just goes to not responding. I just found a windows update and rebooted. Uninstalled Eve and reinstalled it. Crashed within 60 seconds of combat twice. Yesterday was an Nvidia update, but no beta stuff. I have run launcher as Admin. I have zero challenges in other apps. A 500 mbps connection. I have run Adobe Suite Premier and InDesign and Acrobat with no challenges. This is a clean system using Bit Defender with Eve Online White Listed. NVIDIA system information report created on: 05/01/2026 13:10:02 NVIDIA App version: 11.0.7.247 Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, Version 10.0.26200 DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12 Driver: Game Ready Driver - 596.36 - Tue Apr 28, 2026 CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-13600KF RAM: 64.0 GB Storage (2): SSD - 1.8 TB,SSD - 31.4 MB Graphics card GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Direct3D feature level: 12\_1 CUDA cores: 3072 Graphics clock: 2490 MHz Resizable BAR: Yes Memory data rate: 17.00 Gbps Memory interface: 128-bit Memory bandwidth: 272.032 GB/s Total available graphics memory: 40846 MB System video memory: N/A Shared system memory: 32658 MB Dedicated video memory: 8188 MB GDDR6 Video BIOS version: 95.07.36.00.e1 Device ID: 10DE 2882 51611462 Part number: G173 0371 IRQ: Not used Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen4 Display (2): CB271HU Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native) Refresh rate: 60 Hz Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit) Display technology: Variable Refresh Rate HDCP: Supported Display (1): CB271HU Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native) Refresh rate: 60 Hz Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit) Display technology: Variable Refresh Rate HDCP: Supported ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/2 "2026-05-02T01:15:23Z")
Try again after rolling back the video driver update, NVIDIA has been having issues, I would not be surprised if there is another round of them. ---
**Author:** ![Regal\_Concordance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/regal_concordance/32/495128_2.png) [@Regal\_Concordance](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Regal_Concordance)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/3 "2026-05-02T14:47:48Z")
I would, but it crashed 1/2 the time before the update just the same. Then the Video update, and still crashing. ---
**Author:** ![Elathy\_Maricadie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elathy_maricadie/32/379496_2.png) [@Elathy\_Maricadie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elathy_Maricadie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/4 "2026-05-02T15:25:41Z")
To me, it sounds like a hardware related issue, I suspect something didn’t get installed correctly, Driver?, OS?, possibly worst case would be a fault on the hardware itself. Did you have any issues on your old system? ---
**Author:** ![Akkar\_Kardashev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/akkar_kardashev/32/514189_2.png) [@Akkar\_Kardashev](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Akkar_Kardashev)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/5 "2026-05-02T16:05:00Z")
> [@Regal\_Concordance](#): > > RTX 4060 “Higher end PC” …Choose one ---
**Author:** ![Glenduil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/glenduil/32/501812_2.png) [@Glenduil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Glenduil)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/6 "2026-05-02T16:38:58Z")
I would blame either the GPU or Windows 11. I’ve heard bad things about 11 and gaming. ---
**Author:** ![Regal\_Concordance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/regal_concordance/32/495128_2.png) [@Regal\_Concordance](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Regal_Concordance)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/7 "2026-05-02T18:36:26Z")
My old system would crash sometimes in battles. That was infrequent and a totally different system. But that was 9+ months ago so hard to remember. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-crashing-shortly-after-entering-combat-on-higher-end-pc/510807/8 "2026-07-31T18:37:08Z")
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